The CIA steps up to blogging...
so, now the cia has discovered blogging... they just aren't sure what to do with it...
they're finding out just how much information is out there in the public domain, easily accessible on the internet... but old habits die hard... the temptation to treat everything as classified is one of them...
another one is even believing that valuable information can be obtained in the public domain rather than from the stereotypical scenario of an agent and his mole meeting in the park by the statue of the man on a horse...
such skepticism could only arise from a woeful lack of familiarity with what the internet can provide... two or three days of following kos, atrios, americablog, talkleft, or, dare i say, the blogs on the "other side" of the political spectrum, would quickly dispel any doubts about what serious bloggers can dig up, often with only a moment's notice... Submit To Propeller
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"It's just hilarious how little these people know," said [an] outside expert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because discussions with the agency were confidential.
they're finding out just how much information is out there in the public domain, easily accessible on the internet... but old habits die hard... the temptation to treat everything as classified is one of them...
Not long ago, recalled a former senior government terrorism analyst, he was teaching a class to future CIA intelligence analysts that included a PowerPoint presentation on al Qaeda's post-Sept. 11 evolution, with various images taken from the Internet.
Two men in the back of the class came up to the instructor after the presentation. Where, they asked, did he get a particular image from Iraq? It's classified, they insisted. The former analyst laughed. He had taken it from a gruesome Web site that compiles terrorist atrocity videos along with pornography.
another one is even believing that valuable information can be obtained in the public domain rather than from the stereotypical scenario of an agent and his mole meeting in the park by the statue of the man on a horse...
Perhaps the toughest challenge for the new Open Source Center is proving its mettle inside a skeptical intelligence community, in which the stolen secret has long been prized above the publicly available gem. Clearly there are skeptics. Although the center's Web site is unclassified and available across the government, at the moment it has just 6,500 users with active accounts, Naquin said.
such skepticism could only arise from a woeful lack of familiarity with what the internet can provide... two or three days of following kos, atrios, americablog, talkleft, or, dare i say, the blogs on the "other side" of the political spectrum, would quickly dispel any doubts about what serious bloggers can dig up, often with only a moment's notice... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
11/25/2005
